1638 Jun 1, The first
earthquake was recorded in the U.S. at Plymouth, Mass.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)

1657 Jun 1, 1st Quakers arrived
in New Amsterdam (NY). (MC, 6/1/02)

1676 Jun 1, The Swedish ship
Svardet, armed with 86 bronze canons and under command of Claes
Uggla, went under when Sweden was defeated by a Danish-Dutch fleet
in the Battle of Öland. In 2011 Deep Sea Productions said it
believed it had found the ship off the island of Oland.
(AP,
11/16/11)(www.ocean-discovery.org/thesword.htm)

1711 Jun 1, The Queen Anne Act,
known as The British Post Office Act of 1710, took effect in North
America on June 1, 1711. It created a formula that was used to
improve the colonial postal system and remained in effect in North
America until 1789. Colonists came to view the postal rates set
forth in the act as an excessive and unwelcome form of taxation. The
rates were revised by a later act, which took effect on October 10,
1765.
(http://tinyurl.com/adqtq)

1774 Jun 1, The Boston
Port Bill, the first bill of the Intolerable Acts (called by the
Colonists) became effective. It closed Boston harbor until
restitution for the destroyed tea was made (passed Mar. 25, 1774).
(DTnet, 6/1/97)(HN, 6/1/98)

1783 Jun 1, Last British troops
sailed from New York. (MC, 6/1/02)
1783 Jun 1, Charles Byrne (22),
known as the Irish giant, died. Standing at seven feet seven inches
tall (2.3 meters) he was a celebrity in his own lifetime. When he
died the renowned surgeon and anatomist John Hunter was keen to
acquire his skeleton. Byrne wanted to be buried at sea. The surgeon
managed to bribe one of the Irishman's friends and took his body
before it could be laid to rest in the English Channel. Hunter
boiled Byrne's body down to a skeleton and it became a key feature
of his anatomy collection. In 2011 Experts called for the skeleton
to be buried at sea, as Byrne wanted.
(AP,
12/21/11)(http://www.thetallestman.com/pdf/charlesbyrne.pdf)

1789 Jun 1, Congress passed
its first act which mandated the procedure for administering oaths
of public office.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)(HN, 6/1/98)

1796 Jun 1, Tennessee became
the 16th state of the Union.
(AP, 6/1/97)
1796 Jun 1, In accordance with
the Jay Treaty, all British troops were withdrawn from U.S. soil.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)

1801 Jun 1, Mormon leader
Brigham Young (d.1877), the second president of the Mormon Church,
was born in Whitingham, Vt.
(AP, 6/1/97)

1808 Jun 1, The first US
land-grant university was founded-Ohio Univ, Athens, Ohio.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)

1812 Jun 1, American navy
captain James Lawrence, mortally wounded in a naval engagement with
the British, exhorts to the crew of his vessel, the Chesapeake,
"Don't give up the ship!"
(HN, 6/1/00)
1813 Jun 1, The U.S. Navy
gained its motto as the mortally wounded commander of the U.S.
frigate "Chesapeake", Captain James Lawrence (b.1871) was heard to
say, "Don't give up the ship!", during a losing battle with a
British frigate "Shannon"; his ship was captured by the British
frigate.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)(AP, 6/1/98)

1814 Jun 1, Philip Kearney,
Union Civil War general, was born. He was killed at the Battle of
Chantilly, Virginia.
(HN, 6/1/99)

1815 Jun 1, James Gillray
(b.1757), British caricaturist and printmaker, died. He is famous
for his etched political and social satires, mainly published
between 1792 and 1810.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gillray)(Econ, 12/19/09, p.99)

1818 Jun 1, Mathematician James
Camak demarcated the border between Georgia and Tennessee. Due to a
faulty sextant and bad astronomical charts he drew the line a mile
south of the intended boundary, the 35th parallel.
(Econ, 3/15/08,
p.42)(www.profsurv.com/archive.php?article=1215&issue=86)

1836 Jun 1, In NYC the doors of
the luxurious Astor House hotel opened to the public. It was a near
copy on a grander scale of the earlier, fashionable Trement House in
Boston, also designed by Isaiah Rogers.
(http://tinyurl.com/lg8xuna)

1843 Jun 1, Sojourner Truth
left NY to beg in her career as antislavery activist.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1843 Jun 1, It snowed in
Buffalo and Rochester N.Y., and also in Cleveland Ohio.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)

1855 Jun 1, William Walker
(1824-1860), US adventurer, stormed into Granada, Nicaragua. On July
12, 1857, he declared himself president. Walker reestablished
slavery and planned an 18-mile canal from Lake Nicaragua to the
Pacific. (SSFC, 4/10/05, p.F4)(www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/walker.html)

1862 Jun 1, Slavery was
abolished in all U.S. possessions.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1862 Jun 1, Confederate Pres.
Jefferson Davis appointed General Robert E. Lee as commander of the
Army of Northern Virginia, following the injury a day earlier of
General Joe Johnston at Seven Pines (Fair Oaks).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fair_Oaks)

1864 Jun 1, Battle of Cold
Harbor, Virginia, began as Lee tried to turn Grant's flank.
(HN, 6/1/98)
1864 Jun 1-Nov, Shenandoah
Valley campaign began. (MC, 6/1/02)
1864 Jun 1, Hong Xiuquan
(b.1814), leader of the Taiping Heavenly Army, died from poisoning.
At the time of his death his led over 100,000 troops and controlled
an area bigger than France. In 1996 Jonathan Spence authored “God’s
Chinese Son," a biography of Xiuquan, who believed himself to be
God’s second son.
(WSJ, 8/18/07,
p.P9)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Xiuquan)

1868 Jun 1, The Texas
constitutional convention met in Austin.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1868 Jun 1, James Buchanan (b.
Apr 23, 1791), the 15th president of the United States, died near
Lancaster, Pa. He was the only US president to have never married.
In 1961 Philip Shreiver Klein authored "President James Buchanan: A
Biography."
(AP, 6/1/97)(ON, 12/00, p.12)

1871 Jun 1, Korea’s Yongdu
Fortress fired at a US fleet as it sailed up the Ganghwa Straits,
which leads to the Han river. Some 650 Marines launched the first US
invasion of Korea following a failed attempt by diplomats to open
the Hermit Kingdom to trade. In the end, the Americans won the
battle militarily, but lost diplomatically.
(www.shinmiyangyo.org/nsynopsis.html)(AH, 10/07,
p.57)

1878 Jun 1, John Masefield
(d.1967), England's 15th poet laureate, was born. "To most of us the
future seems unsure. But then it always has been; and we who have
seen great changes must have great hopes."
(AP, 1/1/00)(HN, 6/1/01)(MC, 6/1/02)

1880 Jun 1, The first pay
telephone was installed in the Yale Bank Building in New Haven,
Conn.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1880 Jun 1, The U.S. census
stood at 50,155,783.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)

1888 Jun 1, California got its
first seismographs as three of the devices were installed at the
Lick Observatory at Mount Hamilton, Ca.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)

1890 Jun 1, The US census
stood at 62,622,250. The US government used the Jean Baptiste Pacard
card punch to tabulate the results of the census. Herman Hollerith
designed a system that used a machine with a sorter. Hollerith
formed a firm that eventually became IBM.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)(SFC, 8/5/97, p.A20)(WSJ,
10/15/01, p.R23)(WSJ, 11/12/04, p.W10)

1893 Jun 1, "Falstaff," the
last opera by Giuseppe Verdi, was produced in Berlin.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)(SFEM, 9/10/00, p.20)

1898 Jun 1, The US battleship
Oregon, having steamed around Cape Horn from San Francisco, took
part in the blockade of Santiago Bay, Cuba.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Santiago_de_Cuba)(SFC,
4/18/15, p.C2)
1898 Jun 1, Molly Picon, comic
actress and singer, was born.
(HN, 6/1/01)

1909 Jun 1, Pres. William
Howard Taft touched a key in Washington, DC, sending a signal to
Seattle, opening the Alaska-Yukon Pacific Expo at the Seattle
World’s Fair, as well as a signal to NYC initialing the New York to
Seattle Automobile Race.
(AH, 6/03, p.18)
1909 Jun 1, Guido Deiro,
European vaudeville star, introduced the "fizarmonica systema piano"
at the Alaskan Exposition in Seattle, Washington. He was contracted
by the Ranco Antonio Accordion Company of Italy and is credited with
naming the instrument “piano accordion." His brother Pietro Deiro
was the first to play the accordion in San Francisco.
(www.guidodeiro.com)

1915 Jun 1, Germany conducted
the first zeppelin air raid over England. [see May 10, 31]
(DTnet, 6/1/97)(HN, 6/1/98)
1915 Jun 1, A forced exodus [of
Armenians] from Baibourt [Turkey] took place. All the villages, as
well as three-fourths of the town, had already been evacuated. A 3rd
convoy included from 4,000 to 5,000 people. Within six or seven days
from the start, all males down to below fifteen years of age had
been murdered.
(http://www.ku.edu/~kansite/ww_one/docs/bryce.htm)

1916 Jun 1, The National
Defense Act increased the strength of the U.S. National Guard by
450,000 men. The legislation set up uniform standards for training,
unit size and required all enlistees to take a dual oath to obey the
state’s governor and the US president.
(HN, 6/1/98)(SFC, 5/17/06, p.A11)

1926 Jun 1, Ignacy Mocicki was
elected president of Poland.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1926 Jun 1, Actress Marilyn
Monroe (d.Aug 5, 1962), (born as Norma Jean Mortenson, later Norma
Jean Baker), was born in Los Angeles. "I don't mind living in a
man's world as long as I can be a woman in it."
(AP, 6/1/97)(AP, 8/5/99)(HN, 6/1/01)

1927 Jun 1, The Delta King
steamboat made its maiden voyage from SF to Sacramento, Ca. Its
twin, the Delta Queen, followed the next day. The 81-mile trip took
nearly all night. Stan Garvey later authored "The King and Queen of
the River." The last Sacramento River voyages were made in 1940. In
1969 Tom Horton (1940-2006), a columnist for the Sacramento Union,
led a band of civic pirates to bring the languishing boat back from
Stockton to Sacramento, where it was transformed to a waterfront
hotel, theater and restaurant.
(SSFC, 6/2/02, p.A18)

1938 Jun 1, Superman made his
first appearance in D.C. Comics’ Action Comics Series issue #1,
published by Romania-born American Harry Donenfeld (1893-1965). The
comic book sold for 10 cents. By 1995 surviving copies sold for over
$75,000. Jerry Siegel (b.1914) and Joe Shuster (b.1914) created
Superman in 1933. In 2001 Bradford W. Wright authored "Comic Book
Nation," a history of comic books. In 2009 a copy of the first
Superman comic book sold for 317,200 dollars at an auction.
(www.greatkrypton.com/superman/creators.php)(SFC,
6/2/96, p.T-11)(WSJ, 5/23/01, p.A24)(AFP,
3/14/09)(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Donenfeld)

1943 Jun 1, A civilian flight
from Lisbon to London was shot down by the Germans during World War
II, killing all those aboard, including actor Leslie Howard
(b.1893). Howard was killed over the Bay of Biscay, when the British
Overseas plane he was on was shot down by Luftwaffe fighters. His
last on-screen role was that of Spitfire designer R. J. Mitchell in
the 1942 film "The First of the Few" (released in the U.S. as a
trimmed version entitled Spitfire in 1948). Leslie Howard, perhaps
best remembered to modern filmgoers as Ashley Wilkes in "Gone With
The Wind" (1939), was a World War I veteran who was advised to take
up acting as therapy after he was mustered out for shell shock. He
found success throughout the 1930s, but with the outbreak of World
War II, devoted himself to the war effort--directing films, writing
and broadcasting on the radio.
(AP, 6/1/98)(HNQ, 3/23/01)

1944 Jun 1, The British
Broadcasting Corp. broadcasted a line of poetry by the 19th century
French poet Paul Verlaine. It was a coded message intended to warn
the French resistance that the D-Day invasion was imminent, "The
long sobs of the violins of autumn."
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1944 Jun 1, Gen'ls.
Montgomery, Patton, Bradley, Dempsey and Crerar met in Portsmouth.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)

1955 Jun 1, The TV series
"Front Row Center" debuted on CBS.
(www.imdb.com/title/tt0047732/)
1955 Jun 1, The 3-day Messina
Conference opened in Sicily. This conference of the foreign
ministers of the six member states of the European Coal and Steel
Community (ECSC) led to the creation of the European Economic
Community in 1958.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messina_Conference)(Econ, 10/17/15,
SR p.7)

1958 Jun 1, "Youth Wants To
Know", TV Public Affairs; last aired on NBC. Apparently, they didn't
want to know.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1958 Jun 1, Charles de Gaulle
became premier of France, marking the beginning of the end of the
Fourth Republic and the beginning of the Fifth Republic. France, on
the verge of civil war over Algeria, called De Gaulle out of
retirement.
(TMC, 1994, p.1958)(AP, 6/1/08)(Econ., 3/21/15,
p.44)

1959 Jun 1, "Juke Box Jury"
began its long run on BBC-TV.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1959 Jun 1, R.C., "The Battle
Of New Orleans" by Johnny Horton peaked at #1 on the pop singles
chart and stayed there for six weeks.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1959 Jun 1, R.C., "Frankie
Man's Johnny" by Johnny Cash peaked at #57 on the pop singles chart.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1959 Jun 1, American Smelting
& Refining, Corn Products Refining, National Steel and National
Distillers & Chemical Corp. were removed from the DJIA. Anaconda
Copper, Swift & Co., Aluminum Co. of America and Owens-Illinois
Glass were added as a components of the Dow Jones.
(WSJ, 5/28/96, p. R-45,46)(WSJ, 4/8/04, p.C4)

1964 Jun 1, The Beatles
released the single "Sweet Georgia Brown"/"Take Out Some Insurance
On Me Baby."
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1964 Jun 1, The Rolling Stones
arrived in the U.S. for the first time, landing at Kennedy Airport
in New York. Their first date was at a high school stadium in MA.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1964 Jun 1, Dolly Parton spent
her first day in Nashville in search of a record deal.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)

1967 Jun 1, "Sgt. Pepper's
Lonely Hearts Club Band," was released in the U.K. and the following
day in the U.S. and was certified "gold" the same day of release. It
topped the charts all over the world, holding the number one slot in
Britain for 27 weeks and for 19 in America. It received four Grammys
including Best Album.
(AP, 6/1/97)
1967 Jun 1, In Israel pressure
from the army and a threat by some parties to quit the governing
coalition forced PM Levi Eshkol to bring in Moshe Dayan as defense
minister.
(www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9029562)(Econ,
5/26/07, p.43)

1968 Jun 1, The British
television series "The Prisoner," starring Patrick McGoohan, had its
American premiere on CBS.
(AP, 6/1/08)
1968 Jun 1, Author-lecturer
Helen Keller (87), who earned a college degree despite being blind
and deaf most of her life, died in Westport, Conn. In 1980 Joseph
Lash published "Helen and Teacher," the story of Helen Keller and
Annie Sullivan.
(AP, 6/1/97)(SFEC, 8/16/98, BR p.3)

1970 Jun 1, The Canadian dollar
was allowed to float.
(http://tinyurl.com/5n8ufg)

1971 Jun 1, The two-room shack
in Tupelo, Mississippi, where Elvis Presley was born, was opened to
the public as a tourist attraction.
(www.guardian.co.uk/music/2006/jun/18/39)
1971 Jun 1, Harold Pinter's
play "Old Times" premiered in London.
(Econ, 2/9/13,
p.81)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Times)
1971 Jun 1, Reinhold Niebuhr
(b.1892), US theologist, died. His Serenity Prayer became widely
used by Alcoholics Anonymous: "God, give us grace to accept with
serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the
things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the
one from the other." His books included “Moral Man and Immoral
Society" (1932) and “Nature & Destiny of Man" (1942).
(SSFC, 5/4/03, p.F2)(WSJ, 12/29/07, p.W8)

1974 Jun 1, The song "Midnight
At The Oasis" by Maria Muldaur peaked at #6 on the pop singles
chart.
(http://goodyoldies.com/billboard/1974.htm)
1974 Jun 1, The song "Oh Very
Young" by Cat Stevens peaked at #10 on the pop singles chart.
(http://goodyoldies.com/billboard/1974.htm)

1975 Jun 1, The Rolling Stones
opened their North American Tour in Baton Rouge, Louisiana with Ron
Wood (b.1947) replacing Mick Taylor (b.1949) as the lead guitarist.
Other cities they played in included, Kansas City, Milwaukee, St.
Paul, Cleveland, Buffalo, Toronto, New York, Philadelphia, Memphis,
Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, Detroit,
Atlanta, and Jacksonville.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_in_music)

1977 Jun 1, The Soviet Union
formally charged Jewish human rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky
with treason. In 1978 he was convicted and imprisoned. In 1986 he
was released to the West.
(AP, 6/1/97)

1978 Jun 1, The East Wing of
the national Gallery of Art designed by I.M. Pei (b.1917) was
dedicated to the people of the US.
(V.D.-H.K.p.362)(www.nga.gov/collection/20th_intro.shtm)
1978 Jun 1, The TV Crime Drama
"Baretta," starring Robert Blake, aired for the last time on ABC. It
was first telecast on Jan 17, 1975.
(www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/9348/baretta.htm)

1979 Jun 1, Paul McCartney and
Wings released "Old Siam, Sir" on its Back to the Egg album.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Siam,_Sir)
1979 Jun 1, Janice Holt Giles
(b.1905), American historical novelist, died. Her 13 novels included
"Hannah Fowler" and "The Believers."
(WSJ, 7/29/99,
p.A24)(www.cumberlandbooks.com/janiceholtgiles.php)
1979 Jun 1, Werner Forssman
(b.1904), German urologist, (Nobel 1956), died. He was the first to
catheterize a human heart. In 1929, at the age of 25, while doing
his surgical training at Eberswalde, a small town near Berlin, he
introduced a ureteral catheter into his own right atrium. Using a
mirror he advanced the catheter under fluoroscopic control and then
climbed the stairs to the x ray department where a chest film was
taken.
(http://tinyurl.com/3d9ys3)(http://tinyurl.com/2v4chn)
1979 Jun 1, The Government of
Zimbabwe-Rhodesia took office under the internal settlement
negotiated between the government of Rhodesia and moderate African
nationalists. Abel Tendekayi Muzorewa (b.1925) served as the first
prime minister under Pres. Josiah Zion Gumede.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_Zimbabwe-Rhodesia)

1980 Jun 1, Ted Turner's Cable
News Network (CNN), providing round-the-clock TV newscasts, made its
debut as television's first all-news service, vowing to stay on the
air until the world ends. James Earl Jones, the voice of Darth
Vader, identified the station: "This is CNN." In 2001 Reese
Schonfeld, the man who cofounded CNN, authored "Me and Ted Against
the World." "Moneyline" TV Financial News debut on CNN.
(AP, 6/1/97)(WSJ, 2/23/00,
p.W10)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN)
1980 Jun 1, Barbra Streisand
appeared at an ACLU Benefit in Calif.
(www.bjsmusic.com/bjsfaq/)

1982 Jun 1, The Rolling Stones
released their "Still Life" album.
(www.amazon.com/Still-Life-Rolling-Stones/dp/B0000084AS)
1982 Jun 1, The Berne
Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural
Habitats came into effect.
(Econ, 9/14/13, SR
p.9)(http://tinyurl.com/pyrhy5c)

1985 Jun 1, The song "Axel F"
by Harold Faltermeyer peaked at #3 on the pop singles chart.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axel_F)
1985 Jun 1, In his Saturday
radio address, President Reagan, saying special interests in
Washington were trying to "pick apart" his tax overhaul plan, asked
for Americans' support.
(http://tinyurl.com/38akmh)
1985 Jun 1, The first phone
call was made on Vodafone United Kingdom's analogue network. This
event was staged, due to a network failure; the first calls were
actually being made the next day. Sir Christopher Gent founded
Vodaphone, a British mobile phone operator. The company name was
coined from a combination of voice and data.
(Econ, 6/3/06,
p.57)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vodaphone#History)

1986 Jun 1, "The Mystery of
Edwin Drood" and "I'm Not Rappaport" won the Tony Awards for best
musical and best play on Broadway.
(www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0153482.html)(http://tinyurl.com/ynyxkb)

1987 Jun 1, The 20th
anniversary of the release of "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club
Band" was marked by the release of the CD in the U.K.
(www.jpgr.co.uk/pcs7027.html)
1987 Jun 1, Vice President
George Bush addressed the Third International Conference on AIDS in
Washington, and, like President Reagan before him, drew scattered
boos by calling for more widespread testing for possible carriers of
the AIDS virus.
(AP, 6/1/97)
1987 Jun 1, In Lebanon PM
Rachid Karami was killed by a remote controlled bomb that blew up
his helicopter off the Lebanese coast. In 1996 former Christian
faction leader Samir Geagea was charged for the murder. In 2005
lawmakers approved motions to pardon Geagea.
(SFC, 7/19/05,
p.A9)(www.tripoli-lebanon.com/rachid-karami.html)

1989 Jun 1, Former Sunday
school teacher John E. List, sought for 18 years in the slayings of
his mother, wife and three children in Westfield, N.J., was arrested
in Richmond, Va. List was later sentenced to life in prison.
(AP, 6/1/99)

1990 Jun 1, President Bush and
Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev signed more than a dozen
bilateral accords in the second day of their Washington summit.
Meanwhile, Barbara Bush and Raisa Gorbachev traveled to Wellesley
College in Massachusetts to deliver commencement addresses.
(AP, 6/1/00)
1990 Jun 1, E! Entertainment
Television was launched.
(http://tinyurl.com/jwhwu)
1990 Jun 1, The Dow Jones Avg.
hit a record high of 2,900.97.
(www.finfacts.com/Private/curency/djones.htm)

1991 Jun 1, "Silent Lucidity"
by Queensryche peaked at #5 on the pop singles chart.
(www.rockonthenet.com/archive/1991/06-01.htm)
1991 Jun 1, The United States
and the Soviet Union resolved differences over the Conventional
Forces in Europe treaty, clearing the way for a superpower summit.
(AP, 6/1/01)
1991 Jun 1, NASA scrubbed the
launch of the space shuttle "Columbia" after a navigational unit
failed.
(AP, 6/1/01)

1992 Jun 1, The US Treasury
Department, responding to UN sanctions imposed on Yugoslavia, froze
an estimated $200 million in assets of the Serb-led Yugoslav
government.
(AP, 6/1/97)
1992 The Pittsburgh Penguins
completed a four-game sweep of the Chicago Blackhawks to win
hockey's Stanley Cup for the second straight year.
(AP, 6/1/97)
1992 Jun 1, The E-Bulb Lamp, a
20-year light bulb, was introduced by Pierre Villere.
(www.lrc.rpi.edu/programs/Futures/LF-Electrodeless/index.asp)
1992 Jun 1, In Kljuc, Bosnia,
local Serbs rounded up Muslims and shot them. About 200 bodies were
buried at the cave at Laniste and uncovered in 1996.
(SFC, 10/15/96, p.A10)

1993 Jun 1, Connie Chung joined
Dan Rather as co-anchor of the "CBS Evening News". She was dropped
from the show two years later in May, 1995.
(http://tinyurl.com/9xhm5)
1993 Jun 1, The US Supreme
Court ruled that a criminal conviction must be overturned if the
jury received a constitutionally flawed definition of "beyond
reasonable doubt."
(AP, 6/1/98)
1993 Jun 1, A mortar attack on
a holiday soccer game in a suburb of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina,
killed at least 15 people and wounded more than 80.
(AP, 6/1/98)

1995 Jun 1, President Clinton
visited Billings, Montana, where he met with farmers and presided
over a televised town hall meeting.
(AP, 6/1/00)
1995 Jun 1, The US Postal
Service issued a 32 cent stamp honoring the late Marilyn Monroe.
(www.leninimports.com/marilyn_monroe.html)
1995 Jun 1, James Wolfensohn,
Australian-born financier, took over as head of the World Bank. In
2004 Sebastian Mallaby authored “The World’s Banker," a view of how
the world Bank fared under Wolfensohn.
(SFC, 9/28/99, p.C16)

1996 Jun 1, An estimated
200,000 participants, most of them schoolchildren, gathered at the
Lincoln Memorial to protest government cuts for social and
educational programs.
(AP, 6/1/97)
1996 Jun 1, A nine-dish array
of radio telescopes was dedicated in Shasta Ct., Ca. at Berkeley's
Hat Creek Observatory. It has already detected large organic
molecules, including a hint of the amino acid glycene, in gas clouds
near the center of the Earth's Milky Way galaxy.
(SFC, 6/1/96, p.A9)
1996 Jun 1, In Singapore the
government passed a Maintenance of Parents Law.
(WSJ, 9/17/96, p.A1)

1997 Jun 1, The "General
Hospital" soap opera spin-off "Port Charles" debuted as a movie on
ABC, then joined the ABC daytime lineup the following day.
(www.answers.com/topic/port-charles)
1997 Jun 1, At the Tony Awards
in New York "Titanic," "Chicago" and "A Doll's House" won 15 of the
21 awards. "Titanic" won five Tony Awards, including best musical.
(SFC, 6/2/97, p.D1)(AP, 6/1/98)
1997 Jun 1, The Chicago Tribune
published a column by Mary Schmich which urged the graduating class
of 1997, among other things, to "wear sunscreen." The
tongue-in-cheek essay ended up being wrongly attributed to author
Kurt Vonnegut on the Internet.
(AP, 6/1/07)
1997 Jun 1, Betty Shabazz (61),
the widow of Malcolm X, was severely burned in a fire set by her
grandson (12) in her Yonkers, N.Y., apartment. She died of the burn
wounds on Jun 23.
(SFC, 6/24/97, p.A3)(SFC, 6/26/97, p.A15)(AP,
6/1/98)
1997 Jun 1, In Bolivia, the
former right-wing gen’l. and president, Hugo Banzer won the popular
vote in elections with 25% [22%] but failed to get a majority.
Former Pres. Jaime Paz Zamora was 2nd with 17.5%. Congress will
choose from among the 2 top contenders on Aug 4.
(SFC, 6/2/97, p.A6)(WSJ, 6/19/98, p.A15)
1997 Jun 1, China banned leaded
gasoline in 8 of 18 districts and counties.
(SFC, 1/1/98, p.A17)
1997 Jun 1, In France the
Socialists won control of the government and party leader Lionel
Jospin was expected to become prime minister. New conditions for
creating the new European Union and new common currency were
expected. Value added taxes on common purchases were expected to be
slashed; plans to privatize France Telecom were expected to be
abolished and the legal workweek was expected to be reduced to 35
hours without paycuts to provide more jobs.
(SFC, 6/2/97, p.A1,9)

1998 Jun 1, The MacArthur
Foundation disbursed 29 genius grants with cash prizes ranging from
$375,000 to $220,000. Included in the winners were poet Ishmael
Reed; computer programmer Tim Berners-Lee (pioneer developer of the
WWW), historian Mike Davis ("City of Quartz," a history of Los
Angeles), Ayesha Jalal (historian of the cultures of India and
Pakistan), and Peter Miller (Berlin scholar of early modern European
intellectual history.)
(SFC, 6/2/98, p.A2)
1998 Jun 1, President Clinton
abruptly abandoned his executive privilege claim in the Monica
Lewinsky investigation, reducing the prospect of a quick Supreme
Court review of a dispute over the testimony of presidential aides.
(AP, 6/1/99)
1998 Jun 1, In Mass. Rev.
Eugene F. Rivers had his picture on the cover of Time Mag. for his
youth ministry work in Dorchester. His Operation 2006 planned to put
an adult volunteer into the life of every at-risk child in
Dorchester, who needed help, by the year 2006.
(WSJ, 6/5/98, p.W13)
1998 Jun 1, In Michigan a new
$22 million Kellogg's Cereal City USA opened in Battle Creek. It was
owned by the non-profit Heritage Center Foundation.
(SFEC, 8/2/98, p.T7)
1998 Jun 1, In Philadelphia the
largest transit union went on strike and shut down a system that
served 435,000 people a day. This followed 3 months of negotiations
with the transportation authority (SEPTA).
(SFC, 6/2/98, p.A5)
1998 Jun 1, American Home
Products agreed to acquire Monsanto Co. in a deal valued at $35.08
billion.
(WSJ, 6/2/98, p.A3)
1998 Jun 1, It was reported
that investment flow out of Latin America was becoming a stampede.
(WSJ, 6/2/98, p.A16)
1998 Jun 1, In Burma the
military sentenced Aung Thein and Ko Hla Myint to 14 years in prison
for handing out copies of a letter from the Shan State Army
addressed to Lt. Gen'l. Khin Nyunt, the head of military
intelligence, back in March.
(SFC, 6/9/98, p.A14)
1998 Jun 1, From El Salvador it
was reported that just 2% of the forest remained in the country that
was once covered by forest.
(SFC, 6/1/98, p.A8)
1998 Jun 1, The European
Central Bank (ECB) was established by the Treaty of Amsterdam. It is
headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany. It began operating on Jan 1,
1999.
(www.ecb.int/ecb/orga/escb/html/index.en.html)
1998 Jun 1, In France pilots of
Air France began a pay-dispute strike.
(SFC, 6/2/98, p.A11)
1998 Jun 1, In India Prime
Minister Vajpayee announced that large budget increases of 14% for
the armed forces, 68% for nuclear research and 62% for missile
programs was approved. Social programs were increased 35%.
(SFC, 6/2/98, p.A11)
1998 Jun 1, In Indonesia the
new government announced a broad inquiry into corruption under
ex-Pres. Suharto.
(SFC, 6/2/98, p.A11)
1998 Jun 1, Thousands of
refugees from Kosovo, Serbia, poured into Albania to escape deadly
fighting that began last week around Decani. 39 people were reported
dead.
(WSJ, 6/2/98, p.A3)(AP, 6/1/99)
1998 Jun 1, In Russia the stock
market tumbled 10% in panic selling. Prime Minister Kiriyenko
reduced the auction cost for the sale of state's Rosneft Oil Co. to
$1.6 bil.
(SFC, 6/2/98, p.A11)
1998 Jun 1, In South Korea
Pres. Kim Dae Jung urged the US and western nations to end sanctions
against North Korea.
(SFC, 6/2/98, p.A10)
1998 Jun 1, Zambia dropped
charges against former Pres. Kaunda and released him after Kaunda
pledged to retire.
(SFC, 6/2/98, p.A11)

1999 Jun 1, President Clinton
ordered a government investigation into whether—and how—the
entertainment business markets violence to children. In a report
released in September 2000, federal regulators said the movie, video
game and music industries aggressively marketed to underage youths
violent products that carried adult ratings.
(AP, 6/1/04)
1999 Jun 1, In Little Rock,
Ark., 9 people died when an American Airlines jet carrying 145
people crashed into a light tower on landing in stormy weather. The
toll climbed to 11 after 2 initial survivors died. In 2001 pilot
error was cited.
(SFC, 6/3/99, p.A1)(SFC, 6/17/99, p.A3)(SFC,
10/24/01, p.C14)
1999 Jun 1, A peace plan for
Kosovo was carried to Pres. Milosevic by Finnish Pres. Martti
Ahtisaari. The plan was negotiated Strobe Talbott (53), US deputy
Sec. of State, Martti Ahtisaari (61), President of Finland, and
Viktor Chernomyrdin, special Russian envoy.
(SFC, 6/2/99, p.A10)(SFC, 6/4/99, p.A10)
1999 Jun 1, In Angola UNITA
rebels claimed that they killed 49 government soldiers in 4 clashes
over the past week.
(SFC, 6/2/99, p.A13)
1999 Jun 1, Cuba filed a $181.1
billion compensation claim against the US for deaths and injuries in
what it called a 40 year "dirty war" against Pres. Castro's
government.
(SFC, 6/2/99, p.A12)
1999 Jun 1, In Lebanon an
Israeli supported militia withdrew from a strategic position in
South Lebanon.
(SFC, 6/2/99, p.A11)
1999 Jun 1, Pakistani
authorities said 10 school children were killed by an Indian
artillery shell that his a school near the Line of Control dividing
India and Pakistan in Kashmir. India claimed to have killed 470
Muslim fighters and Pakistani soldiers. In Kargil Pakistani forces
shelled for the 26th consecutive day.
(SFC, 6/2/99, p.C2)

2000 Jun 1, In Atlanta 3
federal appellate judges ruled that immigration officials acted
reasonably in denying Elian Gonzalez an asylum hearing.
(SFC, 6/2/00, p.A1)
2000 Jun 1, With about half an
hour to spare, Texas Governor George W. Bush blocked the scheduled
execution of convicted killer Ricky McGinn so that possibly
exculpatory DNA evidence could be reviewed. The DNA tests failed to
establish McGinn's innocence, and he was put to death by injection
the following September.
(AP, 6/1/01)
2000 Jun 1, Rick Wagoner, the
president of General Motors, was named CEO of GM.
(WSJ, 3/30/09, p.A5)
2000 Jun 1, The organophosphate
pesticide called chlorpyrifos, sold under names including Dursban,
was reported to pose a risk to children. The EPA announced a ban on
its use for most applications on June 8.
(WSJ, 6/1/00, p.A1)(SFC, 6/9/00, p.A1)
2000 Jun 1, At Los Alamos hard
drives with classified nuclear secrets were discovered missing. They
were found June 16 behind a photocopier.
(WSJ, 6/13/00, p.A1)(SFC, 6/17/00, p.A1)
2000 Jun 1, In Germany the Expo
2000 opened in Hanover and ran to Oct 31.
(WSJ, 6/29/00, p.A24)
2000 Jun 1, Stores across Japan
emptied beer vending machines to comply with a voluntary ban on beer
vending to help reduce alcoholism.
(SFC, 6/2/00, p.B11)
2000 Jun 1, In Kosovo Albanians
killed a woman and wounded 3 men when they opened fire on a group of
Serbs in the US zone.
(WSJ, 6/2/00, p.A1)
2000 Jun 1, In Zimbabwe Pres.
Mugabe announced that the state would begin seizing 804 mostly
white-owned farms and resettle them with landless blacks.
(SFC, 6/3/00, p.A10)

2001 Jun 1, The Bush
administration removed curbs on the sale of $800 million in goods to
Iraq. A UN oil-for-food exchange was extended for 1 month rather
than the normal 6 months. Iraq responded by saying it wouldn't
resume oil exports.
(SFC, 6/2/01, p.A9)(WSJ, 6/4/01, p.A1)
2001 Jun 1, Logging trucks were
set on fire to protest logging on the slopes of Mount Hood, Oregon.
4 activists including Michael Scarpitti were charged. In 2004
Scarpitti was arrested in Vancouver, BC, while trying to shoplift
some bolt cutters. In 2005 Canada ordered that Scarpitti, aka Tre
Arrow, be extradited to the US to face firebombing charges. In 2007
Suzanne Savoie was sentenced to 4 years and 3 months for her role in
this and one another arson fire. In 2008 Scarpitti was extradited to
the US to face ecoterrorism charges.
(SFC, 2/16/04, p.A7)(SFC, 7/8/05, p.A3)(SFC,
6/1/07, p.A3)(SSFC, 3/2/08, p.A2)
2001 Jun 1, Hank Ketcham
(b.1920), the creator of the "Dennis the Menace" cartoon, died in
Pebble Beach at age 81.
(SFC, 6/2/01, p.A1)(NW, 12/31/01, p.108)
2001 Jun 1, In Indonesia Pres.
Wahid fired the security minister, attorney general, national police
chief and 2 other Cabinet ministers in an attempt to thwart efforts
to remove him from office.
(SFC, 6/2/01, p.A8)
2001 Jun 1, In Israel a
Palestinian suicide bomber killed 21 young people at a Tel Aviv
disco. At least 80 people were injured in the Hamas attack.
(SFC, 6/2/01, p.A1)(SFC, 12/30/01, p.D3)
2001 Jun 1, In Nepal Crown
Prince Dipendra (29) killed at least 8 members of the royal family
before shooting himself. King Birendra, Queen Aiswarya, Princess
Shruti, Prince Nirajan, 3 of the King's sisters and a brother-in-law
were all shot to death. Dipendra was put on life support and Prince
Gyanendra (54), the king's younger brother, was appointed as
assistant to the crown. There was an apparent dispute over his
upcoming marriage.
(SFC, 6/2/01, p.A1)(SSFC, 6/3/01, p.A14)
2001 Jun 1, In South Africa
Nkosi Johnson (12), a victim of AIDS, died. In 2000 he had spoken to
int'l. delegates and implored South Africa to provide HIV-positive
pregnant women with anti-retroviral drugs to block transmission of
the virus to children at birth.
(SFC, 1/12/01, p.A18)(SFC, 6/2/01, p.A8)

2002 Jun 1, President Bush told
West Point graduates the United States would strike pre-emptively
against suspected terrorists if necessary to deter attacks on
Americans, saying "the war on terror will not be won on the
defensive."
(SSFC, 6/2/02, p.A1)(AP, 6/1/03)
2002 Jun 1, Argentina announced
a plan to phase out the banking freeze that included 3-10 year bonds
for savings account holders.
(SSFC, 6/2/02, p.A12)
2002 Jun 1, In Haiti many
co-ops shut down and the owners vanished with the depositors'
savings. Many lost their life savings and property to a cooperative
banking scheme that left untold thousands across Haiti in despair.
(AP, 7/27/02)
2002 Jun 1, Israeli forces
detained hundreds of Palestinians in 4 West Bank cities. Tareq
el-Kharaz (24), who defied a curfew to pray in a mosque, was killed
in Nablus.
(SSFC, 6/2/02, p.A11)
2002 Jun 1, Hansie Cronje (32),
who captained South Africa to 27 wins against only 11 losses in 53
Tests before his disgrace for accepting money from illegal cricket
gamblers, was the only passenger on a mail delivery flight which
crashed into a mountain near his home town of George in bad weather.
(AFP, 5/30/12)
2002 Jun 1, The UN ordered its
employees in India and Pakistan to evacuate their families over a
growing concern of war.
(SSFC, 6/2/02, p.A12)

2003 Jun 1, President Bush
arrived in France from St. Petersburg and had a smile and firm
handshake for this year's Group of Eight nations summit host, French
Pres. Jacques Chirac.
(AP, 6/1/03)(SFC, 6/2/03, p.A1)
2003 Jun 1, Thousands of
protesters blocked highways and bridges, set fire to barricades and
drew volleys of tear gas and rubber pellets from anti-riot police
near the Group of Eight summit in the French town of Evian. Leaders
pledged billions of dollars to fight AIDS and hunger on the opening
day of their summit.
(AP, 6/1/03)
2003 Jun 1, Genentech reported
that its drug Avastin lengthened survival time for colon cancer
patients. In 2004 the FDA approved it as a colorectal cancer
treatment. In 2007 researches said it could improve the treatment of
kidney tumors.
(SFC, 6/2/03, p.A1)(SSFC, 6/3/07, p.G1)
2003 Jun 1, UC Berkeley
researchers revealed a new laboratory method for manufacturing the
anti-malarial drug, artemisinin.
(SFC, 6/2/03, p.A11)
2003 Jun 1, China began filling
the reservoir behind its gargantuan Three Gorges Dam, a major step
toward completion of the world's largest hydroelectric project.
(AP, 6/1/03)
2003 Jun 1, India officials
reported that a heat wave in southern Indian has killed at least
1000 people in the past 3 weeks.
(AP, 6/2/03)
2003 Jun 1, The Israeli
military eased travel restrictions and allowed thousands of
Palestinian workers to enter the country in an effort to lower
tensions and build goodwill.
(AP, 6/1/03)
2003 Jun 1, Myanmar's military
junta closed universities and shut down offices of pro-democracy
leader Ang San Suu Kyi's party, after she and some of her key aides
were detained.
(AP, 6/1/03)
2003 Jun 1, In Pakistan the
Islamist-ruled Northwest Frontier province passed legislation to
adopt Shariah as the supreme law. A day earlier 5-times-a-day prayer
was made compulsory.
(SFC, 6/3/03, p.A8)
2003 Jun 1, In southern
Pakistan a motorboat taking people on a sightseeing trip sank in a
lake, killing at least 26 people.
(AP, 6/1/03)
2003 Jun 1, Togo's Pres.
Gnassingbe Eyadema, Africa's longest reigning ruler, faced
elections. Togo's per capita income fell from $600 in the 1980s to
less than $300 in 2003.
(AP, 6/1/03)

2004 Jun 1, The US Dept. of
Homeland Security awarded a contract, valued as much as $10 billion,
to a group of companies led by a unit of Accenture Ltd., a
Bermuda-based business consultancy.
(WSJ, 6/2/04, p.A1)
2004 Jun 1, A US federal judge
declared the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional, saying
the measure infringed on women's right to choose.
(AP, 6/1/05)
2004 Jun 1, In New Jersey a new
ruling took effect that barred reduced nightclub cover charges and
cocktail tabs for women due to a discrimination suit filed 6 years
earlier.
(SFC, 6/18/04, p.W2)
2004 Jun 1, Anheuser-Busch
offered HK$5.58 per share for China’s Harbin Brewery Group Ltd. 2
days later SABMiller withdrew its HK$4.30 offer.
(WSJ, 6/4/04, p.A3)
2004 Jun 1, William Manchester
(82), historian and biographer, died in Middletown, Conn. His work
included “The Arms of Krupp" (1958) and “The Death of a President"
(1967), an account of the Kennedy assassination.
(SFC, 6/2/04, B7)
2004 Jun 1, In eastern
Afghanistan a bomb planted under the chair of a city police chief
exploded, killing him and wounding two government officials.
(AP, 6/1/04)
2004 Jun 1, In eastern Bolivia
army soldiers fought peasants blocking a highway in a clash that
killed one soldier and one civilian.
(AP, 6/2/04)
2004 Jun 1, In Brazil police
entered the Benfica prison after a three-day rebellion and found the
bodies of 38 inmates, some of them mutilated. At least 14 of 900 had
escaped.
(AP, 6/2/04)
2004 Jun 1, In northeast
Brazilian state of Alagoas 2 days of heavy rains killed 20 people
and left some 2,100 homeless.
(AP, 6/2/04)
2004 Jun 1, Congolese soldiers
battled troops loyal to Brig. Gen. Laurent Nkunda, a renegade
commander in eastern Congo, breaking a shaky cease-fire.
(AP, 6/1/04)
2004 Jun 1, Ecuador's Finance
Minister Mauricio Pozo resigned, leaving struggling President Lucio
Gutierrez to find a replacement to lead an economic policy approved
by international lenders but unpopular at home.
(AP, 6/1/04)
2004 Jun 1, Ecuador hosted the
Miss Universe pageant. Jennifer Hawkins, a 20-year-old, blue-eyed
Australian, was named Miss Universe 2004.
(AP, 6/2/04)
2004 Jun 1, Michel Dansel,
French intellectual, held a mock funeral ceremony for the verb. His
new 233-page book, “Le Train de Nulle Part" (The Train to Nowhere),
was written without verbs.
(WSJ, 7/16/04, p.A1)
2004 Jun 1, In Haiti US
commanders began turning over authority to a UN force under Gen.
Augusto Pereira of Brazil.
(SFC, 6/2/04, A1)
2004 Jun 1, Ghazi Mashal Ajil
al-Yawer, a tribal chief, was named interim president of Iraq.
(AP, 6/1/04)
2004 Jun 1, In Iraq bombs
exploded in central Baghdad and near a U.S. military base in the
northern city of Beiji. At least 14 people were killed.
(AP, 6/1/04)(SFC, 6/2/04, A13)
2004 Jun 1, Leonid Parfyonov, a
leading Russian television news anchor, was dismissed and his show,
"Namedni (Recently)," shut down after the program tried to broadcast
an interview with the widow of a slain Chechen separatist leader.
(AP, 6/2/04)
2004 Jun 1, In Turkey Kurdish
rebels, Kongra-Gel, announced a resumption of battle saying the
government had not met their terms.
(Econ, 9/4/04, p.51)

2005 Jun 1, In his first day on
the job, World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz said he hoped the bank
could help transform Africa from a continent of despair to one of
hope.
(AP, 6/1/05)
2005 Jun 1, In California a
landslide destroyed 17 multimillion-dollar houses and damaged nearly
11 others in Laguna Beach.
(AP, 6/2/05)
2005 Jun 1, A 5-day UN World
Environment Day conference opened in SF.
(SFC, 6/1/05, p.A1)
2005 Jun 1, Missouri opened its
1st season of legal hand-fishing following fierce lobbying efforts
by Noodlers Anonymous, a local support group for catching catfish by
hand.
(Econ, 5/28/05, p.37)
2005 Jun 1, George Mikan (80),
Minneapolis Lakers basketball star, died. He was so big and dominant
in college that he sparked the goaltending rule.
(WSJ, 6/3/05, p.A1)
2005 Jun 1, In Afghanistan a
bomb from a suicide attacker tore through a mosque during a funeral
in Kandahar for a Muslim cleric opposed to the Taliban, killing at
least 20 people. The local governor said an al-Qaida-linked militant
was responsible.
(AP, 6/1/05)
2005 Jun 1, Burkina Faso
President Blaise Compaore opened the 7th summit of Sahel and Sahara
countries, spurring the 21-member body to take a decisive role in
shaping globalization.
(AFP, 6/2/05)
2005 Jun 1, China began levying
a 5.5% tax on residential property sold after this date. It would
only be applied to property sold fewer than 2 years after its
purchase.
(WSJ, 5/26/05, p.A10)
2005 Jun 1, China called a
resolution by Brazil, Germany, India and Japan to expand the U.N.
Security Council, and hopefully give them permanent seats,
"dangerous" and hinted it would use its veto power if necessary to
block final approval.
(AP, 6/1/05)
2005 Jun 1, In southern China
heavy rain triggered floods and mudslides, leaving about 200 people
dead or missing.
(AP, 6/1/05)
2005 Jun 1, In Haiti gunmen
killed Paul-Henri Mourral (53), a French diplomat, in Port-au-Prince
and stole his car.
(AP, 6/2/05)
2005 Jun 1, A suicide bomber
attacked the main checkpoint to Baghdad International Airport,
wounding at least 15 Iraqis.
(AP, 6/1/05)
2005 Jun 1, Jerusalem city
engineer Uri Shetrit said 88 homes in an Arab neighborhood are
marked for demolition to make way for an archaeological park
documenting the disputed city's ancient Jewish origins.
(AP, 6/1/05)
2005 Jun 1, About 200 people,
some throwing stones, broke into Kyrgyzstan's Supreme Court and
evicted activists who had occupied the building for more than a
month in a protest on behalf of five losing parliamentary
candidates.
(AP, 6/1/05)
2005 Jun 1, Dutch voters
worried about social benefits and immigration overwhelmingly
rejected the European Union constitution in what could be a knockout
blow for a charter meant to create a power rivaling the United
States. Slow economic growth in the Netherlands was seen as a key
reason for the massive rejection of the EU constitution
(AP, 6/1/05)
2005 Jun 1, In Poland
investigators published a report offering new details of allegations
that a priest was an informer for Poland's communist government
while he was close to Pope John Paul II's entourage in the 1980s.
The report says against Rev. Konrad Stanislaw Hejmo met secretly
with communist agents from 1975 to 1988 in upscale restaurants and
hotel rooms, giving them details about the church in return for
money and gifts of liquor.
(AP, 6/1/05)
2005 Jun 1, Zimbabwe’s state
Herald newspaper reported that police have arrested more than 22,000
people as a fierce blitz on illegal stores and shantytowns gathered
pace, sending homeless people fleeing for the countryside.
(Reuters, 6/1/05)

2006 Jun 1, The US military
said more Guantanamo Bay detainees have joined a hunger strike,
raising the total to 89, and six of them were being force-fed.
(AP, 6/2/06)
2006 Jun 1, A contrite U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers took responsibility for the flooding of New
Orleans by Hurricane Katrina.
(AP, 6/1/07)
2006 Jun 1, California Gov.
Schwarzenegger reluctantly reached an agreement with the federal
government to deploy 1,000 members of the California National Guard
along the US-Mexico border.
(SFC, 6/2/06, p.B1)
2006 Jun 1, The Univ. of
California ceded control of Los Alamos National Laboratory in New
Mexico to a consortium, the Los Alamos National Security, which
included, UC, Bechtel, Washington Group Int’l., and BWX
Technologies.
(Econ, 6/17/06,
p.85)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Alamos_National_Laboratory)
2006 Jun 1, Texas Gov. Rick
Perry announced a plan to use night-vision Webcams along the border
and let Internet users serve as volunteer sentinels.
(http://tinyurl.com/k7z7a)(WSJ, 6/9/06, p.A1)
2006 Jun 1, The NYSE under John
Thain agreed to acquire Paris-based Euronext NV, Europe’s 2nd
largest stock exchange, for $10 billion.
(SFC, 6/2/06, p.A3)
2006 Jun 1, Katharine Close, a
13-year-old New Jersey girl making her fifth straight appearance at
the Scripps National Spelling Bee, rattled off "ursprache" to claim
the title of America's best speller. For the first time in its
81-year history, the final rounds of the spelling bee were broadcast
live on prime-time network TV.
(AP, 6/2/06)(Econ, 6/10/06, p.31)
2006 Jun 1, In Indiana 7
Covarrubias family members, the youngest just 5 years old, were shot
to death in their Indianapolis home. The next day police arrested
suspect James Stewart (30) without incident after a traffic stop. A
second suspect, Desmond Turner (28), turned himself in on June 3.
Robbery was the suspected motive.
(AP, 6/2-3/06)(SSFC, 6/4/06, p.A11)
2006 Jun 1, In western
Afghanistan a suicide car bomb blew up near a convoy of Afghan and
US-led coalition troops, killing the attacker but hurting no one
else.
(AP, 6/1/06)
2006 Jun 1, In Vienna the US
and 5 world powers agreed to offer Iran proposals that would bring
it significant benefits if it halts its drive to master nuclear
power.
(SFC, 6/2/06, p.A3)(WSJ, 6/2/06, p.A1)
2006 Jun 1, Bolivian doctors
staged a 1-day strike to protest the presence of 600 Cuban
physicians providing free care as Pres. Morales cultivates links to
Castro.
(WSJ, 6/2/06, p.A1)
2006 Jun 1, East Timor
President Xanana Gusmao made an emotional plea for peace after weeks
of violence, as the rebel leader pressed him to oust the unpopular
prime minister.
(AFP, 6/1/06)
2006 Jun 1, Jorma Ollila
stepped down as chief of Finland’s Nokia Corp. He was succeeded by
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo. The new Nokia Nseries included the N73
camera-phone; the N91 phone, which doubled as an iPod-style music
player; the N92, a mobile TV; and the N93, a mobile video camera.
(Econ, 5/27/06, p.64)
2006 Jun 1, The German
parliament overwhelmingly approved the government's plan to deploy
German troops to the Democratic Republic of Congo during its July
election, despite public skepticism about the mission.
(AP, 6/1/06)
2006 Jun 1, A German court
jailed Sabine Hilschenz (40) for 15 years for killing eight of her
newborn babies in the worst case of infanticide in the country's
criminal history. She had buried them in flower pots and a fish tank
at her parents’ home.
(AFP, 6/1/06)(SFC, 4/8/08, p.A3)
2006 Jun 1, In eastern India a
land mine thought to have been planted by communist rebels blew up a
police jeep, killing 12 officers from a paramilitary police force.
(AP, 6/1/06)
2006 Jun 1, The Iraqi
government decided to launch its own investigation into reports that
US Marines killed unarmed civilians last year. The top US general in
Iraq ordered American commanders to conduct ethical training on
battlefield conduct. In Iraq a bomb struck a group of construction
workers seeking jobs in central Baghdad, killing at least two and
wounding 18. A mortar barrage struck a number of houses in Baghdad's
southern Dora district. A first barrage of seven mortar rounds
killed nine and wounded 40, while another five rounds killed four
and wounded 29. Gunmen opened fire on Col. Ziyad Tariq,
deputy-commander of the oil protection force in the northern city of
Kirkuk, killing him and a bodyguard and wounding another bodyguard
as they left a restaurant. Police set up roadblocks around the
oil-rich southern city of Basra as a monthlong state of emergency
declared by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki went into effect.
(AP, 6/1/06)(AP, 6/2/06)
2006 Jun 1, In Indian Kashmir a
3-day siege left 8 Muslim rebels and a paramilitary soldier dead as
troops hunted down armed rebels in ongoing operations.
(AP, 6/1/06)
2006 Jun 1, Thousands of Shiite
Muslims enraged by a TV comedy that mocked the leader of Hezbollah
took to the streets of southern Beirut, burning car tires and
blocking roads.
(AP, 6/1/06)
2006 Jun 1, In a published
interview Monaco's Prince Albert II acknowledged he is the father of
a second illegitimate child, a 14-year-old girl living in
California.
(AP, 6/1/06)
2006 Jun 1, In southern Nigeria
a major oil spill forced Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell to cut
production by 50,000 barrels per day.
(AFP, 6/1/06)
2006 Jun 1, In Pakistan
officials said sewage contamination in Faisalabad's water system has
caused an outbreak of gastroenteritis, sickening more than 19,000
people and killing nine. In southwestern Pakistan police raided a
militant hideout and arrested Habib Ullah, a leader of the outlawed
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Sunni militant group, at a home in Quetta. He was
the alleged mastermind of sectarian attacks that killed more than
100 Shiite Muslims in July, 2003, and March, 2004.
(AP, 6/1/06)(AP, 6/2/06)
2006 Jun 1, Several thousand
police officers fired into the air and smashed windows of the
Palestinian parliament building, raising fears of new unrest in Gaza
after the Hamas-led government said it still cannot pay most of its
workers.
(AP, 6/1/06)
2006 Jun 1, Chung Dong-young,
the leader of South Korea's ruling party, resigned one day after the
conservative opposition won 12 of 16 key regional posts in local
elections.
(AP, 6/1/06)
2006 Jun 1, Spain's Supreme
Court acquitted the only person convicted of involvement in the
September 11 attacks in a trial last year of suspected Al Qaeda
members. Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas, known as Abu Dahdah, had been
convicted of conspiracy to commit terrorist murder and sentenced to
27 years in jail. He will, however, continue to serve a 12 year
sentence for leading a terrorist group.
(Reuters, 6/1/06)
2006 Jun 1, In Spain Rocio
Jurado (61), hailed as the country’s greatest singer, died of
cancer. Her recordings included 5 platinum and 30 gold records.
(SFC, 6/2/06, p.B9)
2006 Jun 1, The US pledged
"tangible military cooperation" with embattled Sri Lanka, but warned
the government here against a return to war with Tamil Tiger rebels.
(AFP, 6/1/06)
2006 Jun 1, Swedish lawmakers
approved a law that makes it possible for the Scandinavian country
to imprison former Liberian President Charles Taylor if a UN-backed
tribunal convicts him of war crimes.
(AP, 6/1/06)
2006 Jun 1, In western Turkey a
methane gas explosion ripped through a coal mine, killing 17 miners
in the village of Odakoy in western Balikesir province.
(AP, 6/2/06)

2007 Jun 1, The US government
warned consumers to avoid using toothpaste made in China because it
may contain a poisonous chemical used in antifreeze.
(AP, 6/2/07)
2007 Jun 1, In California a
federal court judge barred the state from seizing abandoned assets
until officials find a better way to notify people that their
property is about to be taken.
(SFC, 6/2/07, p.B1)
2007 Jun 1, In Michigan Jack
Kevorkian, the retired pathologist dubbed "Dr. Death" for claims
that he participated in at least 130 assisted suicides, left prison
after eight years still believing people have the right to die.
(AP, 6/1/07)
2007 Jun 1, In Afghanistan a
NATO soldier was killed in a bomb blast while two Afghan women and a
policeman died in attacks elsewhere linked to a deepening Taliban
insurgency.
(AP, 6/1/07)
2007 Jun 1, Rakhat Aliyev, the
Kazakh ambassador to Austria until he was dismissed on May 26, was
arrested for alleged involvement in the suspected kidnapping of two
senior managers of a bank he controls. He appealed to Austrian
authorities not to extradite him to his homeland to face kidnapping
charges.
(AP, 6/2/07)
2007 Jun 1, In a key legal step
toward assigning blame for Brazil's deadliest plane crash, two US
pilots and four Brazilian air traffic controllers were indicted on
charges equivalent to involuntary manslaughter for the Sep 29, 2006,
mid-air collision that killed 154 people.
(AP, 6/2/07)
2007 Jun 1, In Brazil federal
authorities said an Indian tribe that has had very limited contact
with the outside world, has been located in a remote Amazon region.
The Metyktire, a subgroup of the Kayapo tribe, consisted of some 87
members.
(AP, 6/1/07)
2007 Jun 1, Marly de Oliveira
(69), the Brazilian poet who wrote the award-winning volume "O Mar
de Permeio" (The Sea Between Us), died in Rio de Janeiro.
(AP, 6/3/07)
2007 Jun 1, The UN refugee
agency said hundreds of women and children fled by foot and on
donkeys from Darfur to the neighboring Central African Republic
after their town was attacked by planes and helicopters. The
refugees said their town of Dafak, in southern Darfur, was attacked
repeatedly by janjaweed militia from May 12 to May 18 and that their
homes had been bombarded by airstrikes.
(AP, 6/1/07)
2007 Jun 1, On Children’s Day
in China thousands of people rallied in Xiamen to protest plans for
a Taiwanese-owned chemical factory to make paraxylene, used in
polyester. Thousands marched again the next day
(Econ, 6/23/07, p.48)
2007 Jun 1, Vietnam became
Cuba's latest partner in oil exploration and drilling in the Gulf of
Mexico under one of several agreements signed during a visit by
Vietnamese Communist Party chief Nong Duc Manh.
(AP, 6/1/07)
2007 Jun 1, A French naval
frigate conducting a surveillance mission off Malta discovered the
bodies of 18 people floating in the Mediterranean. Crew members on
"La Motte Picquet" noticed no boat nearby as the bodies, possibly of
illegal immigrants hoping to reach Europe, were pulled out of the
water.
(AP, 6/1/07)
2007 Jun 1, Police in northern
India issued shoot-on-sight orders as eight more people were killed
in ethnic clashes that have left 28 dead so far.
(AP, 6/1/07)
2007 Jun 1, In
Indian-controlled Kashmir suspected Islamic militants attacked a
paramilitary camp, a police post and an army vehicle in an upsurge
in violence, killing three government soldiers and wounding another
22.
(AP, 6/1/07)
2007 Jun 1, In Iraq an
al-Qaida-linked suicide bomber blew himself up in a house sheltering
members of the rival 1920 Revolution Brigades, killing two of the
other militants and wounding four in Baqouba. American troops killed
3 children near Fallujah when a US tank opened fire on suspected
insurgents believed to be planting roadside bombs. A US soldier on a
foot patrol was killed after approaching two suspicious men outside
a mosque, one of whom blew himself up.
(AP, 6/1/07)(AP, 6/3/07)(SSFC, 6/3/07, p.A23)
2007 Jun 1, Israeli troops shot
and killed two 13-year-old Palestinians near the Gaza-Israel border
fence, saying they were crawling toward the barrier in a "suspicious
manner." The boys had told their families they were going to the
beach.
(AP, 6/1/07)
2007 Jun 1, Dozens of Lebanese
army tanks and armored carriers moved toward a Palestinian refugee
camp in northern Lebanon in pursuit of Islamic militants holed up
inside. 19 people died in some of the heaviest fighting since
violence broke out on May 20.
(AP, 6/1/07)(WSJ, 6/2/07, p.A1)
2007 Jun 1, The government of
Mauritania appealed to international donors to help it reverse a
food shortage affecting more than 1 million people.
(AP, 6/2/07)
2007 Jun 1, Mexican soldiers
fired on a family traveling to a funeral when they failed to stop
after being ordered to do so at the checkpoint near the village of
La Joya. 19 Mexican soldiers were sent to a military prison June 4
for the shooting that killed two women and three children. In 2011
the commanding officer received a 40-year sentence in a court
martial and another officer received 38 years. A judge gave 12
enlisted soldiers 16-year sentences.
(AP, 6/5/07)(AP, 11/3/11)
2007 Jun 1, Nigeria’s national
dailies reported that nearly 2,000 students sitting university
entrance exams in have been caught using mobile phones to cheat.
Gunmen disguised as riot police abducted four foreign workers from
the residential compound of oil services giant Schlumberger in
Nigeria's oil city Port Harcourt. The four hostages were citizens of
Britain, France, the Netherlands and Pakistan. Gunmen kidnapped
three senior expatriate management staff and four family members
from the residential compound of chemical company Indorama.
(AFP, 6/1/07)(AP, 6/2/07)
2007 Jun 1, The Norwegian
environmental group Bellona warned that a nuclear waste dump in the
Russia Arctic may be in danger of exploding because of corrosion
caused by salt water in enormous storage tanks.
(AP, 6/1/07)
2007 Jun 1, Alan Johnston, a
British reporter kidnapped in the Gaza Strip nearly three months,
ago appeared in a videotape posted on an Islamic militant Web site,
saying his captors had treated him well, denouncing Israel, and
criticizing British and US Mideast policy. The Swords of Truth, an
Islamic group, threatened to behead female TV broadcasters if they
don't wear strict Islamic dress, frightening reporters and signaling
a further shift toward extremism in the Gaza Strip.
(AP, 6/1/07)(AP, 6/2/07)
2007 Jun 1, The Swords of
Truth, an Islamic group, threatened to behead female TV broadcasters
if they don't wear strict Islamic dress, frightening reporters and
signaling a further shift toward extremism in the Gaza Strip.
(AP, 6/2/07)
2007 Jun 1, At least one US
warship bombarded a remote, mountainous village in Somalia where
Islamic militants had set up a base. One target was said to be Fazul
Abdullah Muhammad (35), a citizen of the Comoro Islands. The next
day Puntland VP Hassan Dahir Mohamoud told The Associated Press that
his government's troops killed eight foreign Islamic militants and
five of them came from Britain, Eritrea, Sweden, the US and Yemen.
(AP, 6/2/07)(AP, 6/3/07)(Econ, 7/14/07, p.52)
2007 Jun 1, In South Africa
hundreds of thousands of public servants embarked on an indefinite
strike.
(AP, 6/1/07)
2007 Jun 1, CNBC Africa was
launched from new headquarters in South Africa. Dubai investors put
in some $22.5 million for the 24-hour African business channel
broadcasting to 14 African countries.
(Econ, 6/9/07, p.75)
2007 Jun 1, The African Union
objected to a proposal for a 23,000-strong AU-U.N. force to help end
the bloodshed in Sudan's troubled Darfur region because it would
give the United Nations command and control.
(AP, 6/2/07)
2007 Jun 1, In southeast Turkey
soldiers killed two Kurdish militants overnight in Tunceli, where
troops massed along the border threatened an incursion into Iraq.
(AP, 6/1/07)

2008 Jun 1, NY Sen. Hillary
Rodham Clinton won Puerto Rico's Democratic presidential primary
68-32%. Only 16% of the voters went to the polls.
(www.mcclatchydc.com/election2008/story/39241.html)(Econ, 6/7/08,
p.36)
2008 Jun 1, In California a
fire ripped through the back lot of Universal Studios destroying
film-set facades, videos and movie reels.
(WSJ, 6/2/08, p.A1)
2008 Jun 1, Alton Kelley (67),
co-creator of psychedelic rock posters, died in Petaluma, Ca. He and
Stanley Mouse had formed Mouse Studios in SF and produced hundreds
of classic psychedelic rock posters. In 1965 he and 3 other people
formed Family Dog and staged the world’s first psychedelic dance
concert at the Longshoreman’s Hall in SF.
(SFC, 6/3/08, p.B5)
2008 Jun 1, In Afghanistan a
remote-controlled bomb detonated as a bus carrying Afghan soldiers
passed by in Kabul, killing one civilian and wounding five people.
In southern Zabul province overnight, suspected Taliban militants
gunned down a district governor and his body guard. Some 150
militants attacked a police checkpoint, triggering a daylong battle
in Murghab district, near the border with Turkmenistan. At least 10
militants were killed. Ashraf Nasery, the governor of Badghis
province, said 49 militants were killed and 35 wounded.
(AP, 6/1/08)(AFP, 6/1/08)(AP, 6/2/08)
2008 Jun 1, Australia, a
staunch US ally and one of the first countries to commit troops to
the Iraq war five years ago, ended combat operations there.
(AP, 6/1/08)
2008 Jun 1, In southwest
Bangladesh police clashed with thousands of garment workers during
fresh protests over low wages and soaring food prices.
(AP, 6/1/08)
2008 Jun 1, Bolivians in two
opposition-controlled states voted overwhelmingly for autonomy
measures that aim to shield the country's remote Amazon basin from
President Evo Morales' leftist reforms.
(AP, 6/1/08)
2008 Jun 1, China became the
latest country to declare war on plastic bags in a drive to save
energy and protect the environment.
(Reuters, 6/1/08)
2008 Jun 1, In Colombia a
mudslide following rains buried several dozen homes in a poor
district of Medellin and at least 23 people were killed.
(AP, 6/2/08)
2008 Jun 1, Yves Saint Laurent
(b.1936, one of the most influential and enduring designers of the
20th century, died in Paris.
(AP, 6/2/08)(Econ, 6/7/08, p.99)
2008 Jun 1, German researchers
reported that the development of a blood-based genetic test for
predicting lung cancer among smokers with 80% accuracy.
(WSJ, 6/2/08, p.B4)
2008 Jun 1, In Baghdad a car
bomb exploded near the Iranian embassy in Baghdad during morning
rush hour, killing at least two civilians and wounding five. A
senior police official was wounded when a bomb that was stuck to his
car exploded in a busy Baghdad intersection. A traffic officer was
killed and four other people were wounded in the attack. Ten
al-Qaida linked insurgents were captured in US-led operations in
Mosul and north of Baghdad.
(AP, 6/1/08)
2008 Jun 1, Israel freed Nasim
Nisr (39), a convicted Hezbollah spy, and the militant group turned
over the remains of Israeli soldiers killed in the 2006 war in
Lebanon.
(AP, 6/1/08)
2008 Jun 1, In Kuwait Muslim
hard-liners walked out of the inaugural meeting of parliament to
protest 2 female Cabinet ministers who were not wearing head
scarves.
(SFC, 6/2/08, p.A3)
2008 Jun 1, In Liberia at least
eight people suffocated at an overcrowded stadium during a soccer
match between Liberia and Gambia.
(www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/02/2263028.htm)
2008 Jun 1, Macedonia's
parliamentary election was marred by violence in Albanian areas and
suspected fraud, with one person shot dead and nine wounded, and
voting halted in one town after a gun battle. PM Nikola Gruevski
scored an overwhelming election victory but monitors criticized
violence that marred the poll and could delay the country's progress
towards EU membership. The government said it will repeat voting in
22 poling stations that were shut down due to shootings or alleged
ballot fraud.
(Reuters, 6/1/08)(Reuters, 6/2/08)(WSJ, 6/2/08,
p.A10)
2008 Jun 1, In western Mexico
Marcelo Ibarra, the mayor of Villa Madero, was forced from his car
and shot dead. Officials believed the killing was an attempted
robbery, although they haven't ruled out other motives.
(AP, 6/3/08)
2008 Jun 1, Gay rights
activists held small, scattered protests in Moscow, flouting
repeated refusals from city authorities for permission to hold
parades or demonstrations.
(AP, 6/1/08)
2008 Jun 1, In Slovakia a new
media law was set to go into effect giving anyone mentioned in an
article sweeping rights to an equally prominent rebuttal. Newspapers
responded by publishing blank front pages. Leading newspapers had
done this twice before during the Meciar years to protest
restrictions on press freedom.
(Econ, 4/26/08, p.71)(Econ, 11/21/09, p.55)
2008 Jun 1, Voters in
Switzerland rejected a plan to give local communities the power to
decide which immigrants should be granted Swiss citizenship.
Currently, after living at least 12 years on Swiss soil, foreigners
who wish to acquire Swiss citizenship face a naturalization
procedure that includes a knowledge of the country's traditions,
history and culture.
(AFP, 6/1/08)
2008 Jun 1, In Zimbabwe police
in Harare jailed Arthur Mutambara, head of an MDC faction, for
allegedly making false statements that endangered state security.
(AP, 6/2/08)(Econ, 6/7/08, p.59)

2009 Jun 1, A federal judge
ordered the United States to publicly reveal unclassified versions
of its allegations and evidence justifying the continued
imprisonment of more than 100 detainees being held at Guantanamo
Bay.
(AP, 6/1/09)
2009 Jun 1, Effective today
border crossings to US entry points from Canada required passports
or other approved identification to be shown. Americans entering
from the US by land or sea from Canada, Mexico, Bermuda and the
Caribbean were required to present identity documents embedded with
RFID tags, though conventional passports remained valid until
expiration. The RFID tags could be scanned by anybody with easily
obtained equipment from 30 feet.
(Econ, 5/30/09, p.37)(SFC, 7/16/09, p.D5)
2009 Jun 1, Muhammad Ahmad
Abdallah Salih (31), a Yemeni detainee at Guantanamo Bay, died of an
apparent suicide. His was the fifth apparent suicide at the offshore
US prison, which Pres. Obama hopes to close by January. The Joint
Task Force that runs the US prison in Cuba said guards conducting a
routine check on June 2 found Salih unresponsive and not breathing.
(AP, 6/3/09)(AP, 8/2/09)
2009 Jun 1, In Arkansas Pvt.
William Long (23) of Conway was shot and killed outside an Army-Navy
Career Center in a west Little Rock shopping center. Pvt. Quinton
Ezeagwula (18) of Jacksonville, Ark., was wounded. The next day
Muslim convert Abdulhakim Muhammad (23) of Little Rock was charged
for the shootings. On July 25, 2011, Muhammad, born as Carlos
Bledsoe, admitted to the crime in a plea deal and was sentenced to
life in prison without parole.
(AP, 6/2/09)(SFC, 7/25/11, p.A7)
2009 Jun 1, San Francisco Mayor
Newsom unveiled a $6.6 billion budget for 2009-2010. He also urged
Santa Clara voters to reject a $937 million stadium project for the
SF 49ers.
(SFC, 6/2/09, p.A1)
2009 Jun 1, Hawaii’s Gov. Linda
Lingle, describing a "fiscal emergency," ordered three days of
unpaid furloughs each month for 14,500 state employees to help erase
a $729 million budget shortfall.
(AP, 6/2/09)
2009 Jun 1, General Motors
filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as part of the Obama
administration's plan to shrink the automaker to a sustainable size
and give a majority ownership stake to the federal government. GM
assets were valued at $82.2 billion with liabilities at $172
billion. The US government planned to receive 60.8% of GM stock,
Canada’s government 11.7%, the UAW’s trust 17.5% and bondholders
10%. GM said it will permanently close nine more plants and idle
three others to trim production and labor costs under bankruptcy
protection. GM was expected to lose 14 factories, 29,000 workers and
2,400 dealers.
(AP, 6/1/09)(Econ, 6/6/09, p.9,60, 62)
2009 Jun 1, The US military
announced the death of US service member the previous day from
non-combat-related injuries in southern Afghanistan by posting the
news on Twitter hours before announcing it in a more formal press
statement. Officials said the US military in Afghanistan is
launching a Facebook page, a YouTube site and feeds on Twitter as
part of a new communications effort to reach readers who get their
information on the Internet rather than in newspapers. Mullah Mansur
was killed in a strike by helicopters in Helmand province. 4
US soldiers were killed by 2 roadside bombs in Wardak province.
(AP, 6/1/09)(AP, 6/2/09)(SFC, 6/2/09, p.A3)
2009 Jun 1, Belgian PM Herman
Van Rompuy vowed to double civilian aid to Afghanistan and welcomed
plans to increase non-military assistance during a visit to Kabul.
(AP, 6/1/09)
2009 Jun 1, Chilean plumber,
Fernando Vera, died of swine flu, making him South America's first
swine-flu death.
(AP, 6/2/09)
2009 Jun 1, In China US
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner reassured the Chinese government
that its huge holdings of dollar assets are safe and reaffirmed his
faith in a strong US currency.
(AP, 6/1/09)
2009 Jun 1, China's special
envoy to Darfur met with Sudan's President Omar al-Beshir and
pledged three million dollars in humanitarian aid for the volatile
region. Liu Guijin "greeted the president for the beginning of talks
in Doha between the JEM and the government."
(AFP, 6/2/09)
2009 Jun 1, In El Salvador
Mauricio Funes, a journalist from a party of former Marxist
guerrillas, became the country's first leftist president,
immediately restoring ties with Cuba while promising to remain
friendly with the United States.
(AP, 6/1/09)
2009 Jun 1, A missing Air
France Airbus A330 jet, Flight 447, carrying 228 people from Rio de
Janeiro to Paris ran into lightning and strong thunderstorms over
the Atlantic Ocean. Brazil soon began a search mission off its
northeastern coast.
(AP, 6/1/09)
2009 Jun 1, Iran state media
reported that five people are dead in an arson attack on a bank in
Zahedan, a restive southeastern city where 25 died in a mosque
bombing last week.
(AP, 6/1/09)
2009 Jun 1, Iraq's self-ruled
Kurdish region officially started pumping crude oil to the
international market. A bomb in a Baghdad market killed four people.
A suicide bomber exploded his car at a police checkpoint in Jalula,
killing a 7-year-old child and wounding eight other people. A
grenade thrown at a US patrol in the northern city of Mosul missed
the Americans but killed one Iraqi and wounded 15 others.
(AP, 6/1/09)
2009 Jun 1, Israel's PM
Netanyahu dismissed the US demand for a settlement freeze as
unreasonable, moving closer to a collision with the Obama
administration, while mobs of Jewish settlers attacked Palestinian
laborers and burned West Bank fields. Israeli settlers waged court
battles to evict dozens of Palestinians from homes in an East
Jerusalem neighborhood, a move threatening to widen Israel's rift
with US President Barack Obama over settlements.
(AP, 6/1/09)(Reuters, 6/1/09)
2009 Jun 1, Mexican soldiers
and federal agents detained 29 police officers in northern Nuevo
Leon state for alleged ties to drug traffickers. Retired Gen. Javier
Aguayo took over as police chief of Chihuahua, where drug-fueled
violence has claimed hundreds of lives. Mexican soldiers in Reynosa
captured Sergio Garcia Trevino, a drug cartel suspect accused of
helping procure the largest illegal weapons cache found in the
country.
(AP, 6/1/09)(AP, 6/2/09)
2009 Jun 1, In Nigeria MEND,
main militant group in southern Nigeria said, it will release Mathew
Maguire, a British hostage it has been holding for the past nine
months. They noted that today was Maguire birthday. The next day
MEND said "Mr Mathew Maguire has declined the gift of a release from
captivity with an argument that he is now an advocate for change in
the region and an honorary member of the Movement for the
Emancipation of the Niger Delta." Nigeria's navy killed seven
militants in a gunbattle in the Niger Delta.
(AFP, 6/1/09)(AFP, 6/2/09)(AFP, 6/3/09)
2009 Jun 1, Pakistan's army
said it lifted curfews in several parts of the Swat Valley as it
hunted Taliban militants in the region, while insurgents killed two
soldiers in a tribal region that could be the next front in the
northwest military offensive. Armed Taliban ambushed a convoy of
some 30 vehicles carrying students home for the summer. Many of the
buses managed to get away. 71 students and nine staff from an
army-run college were rescued the next morning as militants moved
them from North Waziristan to South Waziristan. A handful of
students remained unaccounted for.
(AP, 6/1/09)(AFP, 6/2/09)
2009 Jun 1, In Somalia a
roadside bomb in Mogadishu killed at least 4 police officers in
several civilians.
(SFC, 6/2/09, p.A2)

2010 Jun 1, The US Supreme
Court ruled that suspects must explicitly tell police they want to
be silent to invoke Miranda protections during criminal
interrogations, a decision one dissenting justice said turns
defendants' rights "upside down."
(AP, 6/1/10)
2010 Jun 1, In Van Nuys, Ca., a
porn actor went on a rampage with a machete-style weapon killing a
fellow adult-film performer. Herbert Hin Wong (30) was killed in the
attack. Suspect Stephen Clancy Hills (34) died on June 5 of head
injuries after he fell from a hillside following an 8-hour standoff
with police.
(SFC, 6/3/10, p.A6)(SSFC, 6/6/10, p.A10)
2010 Jun 1, US helicopters flew
Afghan troops into a district of Nuristan province, overrun by the
Taliban, and recaptured Barg-e-Matal, the main town, without firing
a shot. 54 militants were killed or wounded in fighting and
airstrikes before this operation began. 2 police died.
(AP, 6/1/10)
2010 Jun 1, Christie Ibori-Ibie
was found guilty by London's Southwark Crown Court on charges of
aiding her brother James Ibori, the former governor of Delta state,
who himself stands accused of siphoning nearly 300 million dollars
of public funds in Nigeria.
(AFP, 6/2/10)
2010 Jun 1, In Burundi 5
presidential candidates in upcoming elections said they're
withdrawing from the race because of rigged voting. The candidates
announced their withdrawal following a May 24 vote that opposition
parties said were rigged by the ruling party, which received 64
percent of votes. Four rounds of voting remain.
(AP, 6/1/10)
2010 Jun 1, The Bank of Canada
raised its key interest rate from emergency low levels, but said the
European debt crisis made its next move highly unpredictable. The
rate hike, to 0.5 percent from 0.25 percent, made Canada the first
of the G7 major industrialized countries to begin hiking interest
rates after the global financial crisis.
(Reuters, 6/1/10)
2010 Jun 1, China called on
Iran to improve its cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog, after
the agency said in a report that Tehran was pressing ahead with its
controversial atomic program.
(AFP, 6/1/10)
2010 Jun 1, In China bank guard
Zhu Jun (46), angry over a legal ruling in his divorce, opened fire
with a machine gun and two pistols in a court building in the city
of Yongzhou, shooting 3 judges dead and wounding 3 others before
killing himself.
(AFP, 6/1/10)
2010 Jun 1, Egyptians elected
members of parliament's upper house, in a poll marked by widespread
voter apathy, charges of irregularities and a clash in which three
policemen were wounded. Egypt's ruling National Democratic Party
scored an overwhelming victory in upper house elections amid
accusations of irregularities and a low voter turnout.
(AFP, 6/1/10)(AFP, 6/3/10)
2010 Jun 1, In Germany 3
experts working to defuse a bomb from World War II were killed when
the device exploded, injuring six others. Construction workers in
Goettingen had found the 65-year-old explosive device about seven
yards (meters) below the ground on an empty where the city is
currently building a sport arena.
(AP, 6/2/10)
2010 Jun 1, Iraq's Supreme
Court took the first major step toward resolving the nation's
election crisis, ratifying the results and declaring a secular
alliance the biggest winner in the March 7 parliamentary vote. The
election results gave 91 seats to the Iraqiya political alliance led
by Ayad Allawi, a former prime minister and secular Shiite. The
alliance is heavily backed by Iraq's once-dominant Sunni Arab
minority. The US military withdrew from the last 9 checkpoints of
the Green Zone.
(AP, 6/1/10)(SFC, 6/2/10, p.A3)
2010 Jun 1, Iranian-backed
Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip said three of its members have been
killed in an Israeli airstrike in northern Gaza. The Israeli
military confirmed it carried out an airstrike, and Gaza's chief
medical examiner also says there were three deaths. The fighters
were killed shortly after firing rockets into southern Israel.
Israeli authorities said the rockets landed in open areas and caused
no injuries.
(AP, 6/1/10)
2010 Jun 1, PM Bruce Golding
said Jamaica will launch a sustained assault on gangs that control
poor communities across the island and fuel one of the world's
highest murder rates.
(AP, 6/2/10)
2010 Jun 1, A court in Morocco
sentenced Ibrahim Lee Murray (32), a cage fighter with British and
Moroccan nationality, to 10 years in jail for Britain's biggest cash
robbery carried out on Feb 22, 2006.
(AFP, 6/2/10)
2010 Jun 1, Pro-Palestinian
activists sent another boat to challenge Israel's blockade of the
Gaza Strip. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak ordered the opening of
the Rafah border crossing to allow humanitarian aid into the Gaza
Strip.
(AP, 6/1/10)
2010 Jun 1, Philippine
officials said elementary and high schools will start teaching basic
sex education as a pilot program in the conservative Roman Catholic
nation, brushing aside concerns by church leaders that it may
encourage promiscuity among the youth.
(AP, 6/1/10)
2010 Jun 1, Thailand's PM
Abhisit Vejjajiva defended himself against a censure motion in
Parliament and said there would be an independent investigation into
whether the army used undue force to clear anti-government
protesters from Bangkok's streets.
(AP, 6/1/10)
2010 Jun 1, Turkey's prime
minister declared that Israel had carried out a "bloody massacre" by
killing nine people on a Gaza-bound Turkish aid ship and said the
two countries had reached a turning point in their long-standing
alliance.
(AP, 6/1/10)
2010 Jun 1, Ukraine's new
president, accused by opponents of moving the country into Moscow's
orbit, outlined a foreign policy bill that ditches his predecessor's
aim to join NATO but keeps EU membership as a long-term goal.
(AP, 6/1/10)
2010 Jun 1, In Zimbabwe a taxi
van crashed head-on into a military bus, killing 16 people and
seriously injuring three others.
(AP, 6/2/10)

2011 Jun 1, Space shuttle
Endeavour and its 6 astronauts landed at Cape Canaveral following a
2-week mission to the Int’l Space Station. This was Endeavour’s last
mission. It will now go to the California Science Center in Los
Angeles.
(SFC, 6/2/11, p.A6)
2011 Jun 1, A California-based
company, Seeking to capitalize on Arizona's newly enacted medical
marijuana law, opened a superstore-sized garden center in Phoenix
catering to those who want to grow their own cannabis.
(Reuters, 6/2/11)
2011 Jun 1, San Francisco Mayor
Lee rolled out his first budget, a $6.8 billion spending plan for
the fiscal year beginning July 1.
(SFC, 6/2/11, p.A1)
2011 Jun 1, Illinois became the
6th US state to allow civil unions or their equivalent.
(SFC, 6/2/11, p.A6)
2011 Jun 1, In Massachusetts at
least two late-afternoon tornadoes shocked emergency officials with
their suddenness and violence. At least 3 people were killed in the
state's first tornado-related deaths in 16 years.
(AP, 6/2/11)
2011 Jun 1, Pennsylvania and
the city of Philadelphia embarked on a 25-year, $2 billion effort to
reduce storm water pollution through eco-friendly measures.
(SFC, 6/2/11, p.A6)
2011 Jun 1, In eastern
Afghanistan a NATO service member was killed in an insurgent attack.
(AP, 6/1/11)
2011 Jun 1, Argentina enacted a
law criminalizing money laundering.
(AP, 6/3/11)
2011 Jun 1, Bahrain ended
emergency rule in Manama, but police remained at numerous
checkpoints in the city. At least 30 people have been killed since
protests began in February.
(SFC, 6/2/11, p.A3)
2011 Jun 1, Ethiopia's Pres.
Girma Wolde Giorgis said the government has commuted the death
sentences of 23 high-ranking officials from the ousted communist
regime. The sentences were reduced to 25 years.
(AP, 6/1/11)
2011 Jun 1, The Organization of
American States voted 32-1 to allow Honduras to rejoin the OAS. Only
Ecuador voted against the measure.
(SFC, 6/2/11, p.A4)
2011 Jun 1, India pledged to
help strengthen the capabilities of Afghanistan's security forces
after a meeting between the defense ministers of both countries in
New Delhi.
(AFP, 6/1/11)
2011 Jun 1, Iran's parliament
voted to take Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to court over his takeover of the
country's lucrative oil ministry, escalating the power struggle
between the president and the hard-line establishment that has
turned against him.
(AP, 6/1/11)
2011 Jun 1, Iran’s government
media said Haleh Sahabi (54), the daughter of a prominent Iranian
dissident, died of a heart attack while attending her father's
funeral today, but opposition websites said she died in a scuffle
with security forces. The elder Sahabi (81) died a day earlier after
being hospitalized with a brain hemorrhage.
(AP, 6/1/11)
2011 Jun 1, NATO agreed to
extend its Libyan air war by three months and dismissed charges by
Moamer Kadhafi's regime that the bombing campaign has already killed
718 civilians. Libyan oil minister Shukri Ghanem said in Rome that
he now supports the rebel insurgency who have set up a de-facto
capital in Benghazi. A UN panel said government forces have
committed crimes against humanity and war crimes in a conflict that
has left an estimated 10-15 thousand people dead.
(AP, 6/1/11)(AP, 6/2/11)(SFC, 6/2/11, p.A4)
2011 Jun 1, The Mexican
government charged 73 suspects in the killings of 183 people whose
bodies were recovered during April in mass graves near the US
border.
(AP, 6/2/11)
2011 Jun 1, A Taliban video was
made showing Pakistani policemen being executed by firing squad
after being captured in Upper Dir. A commander and his fighters
opened fire on at least 15 men, who start crying and moaning. They
later pump bullets at close-range into bodies still moving. The
victims were policemen and paramilitary police captured on June 1.
(AP, 7/18/11)
2011 Jun 1, In Peru El
Comercio's publisher, Francisco Miro Quesada, responded in the
newspaper, calling the accusations by Novelist Mario Vargas Llosa
"ill-intentioned untruths" and saying the author's letter was "full
of lies." Llosa had angrily pulled his biweekly column from Peru's
dominant newspaper on the eve of the presidential runoff election,
calling El Comercio "a propaganda machine" for conservative
candidate Keiko Fujimori.
(AP, 6/1/11)
2011 Jun 1, Salvadoran
President Mauricio Funes says his Central American country will
allow citizens living abroad to vote in the 2014 presidential
election.
(AP, 6/1/11)
2011 Jun 1, Sri Lanka's police
chief quit, taking responsibility for officers firing live bullets
that killed one man and wounded more than 150 protesters near the
capital this week.
(AFP, 6/1/11)
2011 Jun 1, Sudanese farmers
clashed with police in Gezira state, Sudan's agricultural heartland,
while demonstrating against an "unacceptable" government offer to
buy their land. Under the Gezira Scheme, set up by colonial ruler
Britain in 1925 to cultivate cotton and spanning 840,000 hectares of
land divided into lots of 20 feddans (around 8-9 hectares), Khartoum
was supposed to pay the farmers rent in return for a share of
production, but had not done so for more than 40 years.
(AP, 6/1/11)
2011 Jun 1, The Syrian
government freed hundreds of political prisoners in an amnesty and
the president set up a committee for national dialogue in an effort
to end the 10-week uprising. Syrian military forces killed 42 people
in raids around Homs. Over 300 Syrian exiles gathered in Antalya,
Turkey, to discuss alternatives to Bashar Assad’s rule.
(AP, 6/1/11)(AP, 6/2/11)(SFC, 6/2/11, p.A2)(Econ,
6/4/11, p.57)
2011 Jun 1, Taiwan-based Acer
Inc, the world No. 2 PC maker, said it will take a $150 million
charge to write off inventory and doubtful payments in Europe and
will cut 300 jobs there in the latest upheaval following the sudden
departure of its CEO in March. Acer charged its former chief
executive officer, Gianfranco Lanci, with performance issues, after
he had criticized the company's resistance to globalization in
interviews with the media.
(Reuters, 6/1/11)
2011 Jun 1, In Thailand customs
authorities found 431 turtles and other rare reptiles stuffed into
four suitcases and smuggled into the Bangkok airport.
(AP, 6/2/11)
2011 Jun 1, Tunisia's coast
guard launched operations to rescue would-be immigrants trapped on a
fishing boat that stalled off the country's coast. The boat was
believed to have set sail from Libya and was en route to Italy with
an estimated 800 would-be immigrants. At least 583 of the estimated
800 people on board survived the sinking.
(AP, 6/1/11)(AP, 6/2/11)(AP, 6/3/11)(SFC, 6/6/11,
p.A2)
2011 Jun 1, In Yemen 14
soldiers were killed in overnight fighting with the tribesmen. Fresh
fighting killed at least 41 people including combatants from both
sides.
(Reuters, 6/1/11)(AP, 6/1/11)

2012 Jun 1, In California
federal prosecutors announced charges against 2 Sacramento County
sheriff’s deputies, Ryan McGowan (31) and Thomas Lu (42), accused of
illegally selling dozens of weapons.
(SFC, 6/1/12, p.A5)
2012 Jun 1, In Afghanistan a
suicide attacker rammed a truck packed with explosives into an outer
security checkpost of NATO’s Forward Operating Base Salerno, killing
up 14 militants in Khost province. A British soldier was shot dead
while on patrol in Helmand province.
(AFP, 6/1/12)(AFP, 6/2/12)(SFC, 6/2/12, p.A2)
2012 Jun 1, Australian
researchers reported that eating a block of dark chocolate daily
over 10 years has "significant" benefits for high-risk cardiac
patients and could prevent heart attacks and strokes.
(AFP, 6/1/12)
2012 Jun 1, BP said it was
ready to offload its stake in troubled Russian joint venture TNK-BP
after the shock resignation of the partnership's chief executive
earlier this week. Russian tycoon Mikhail Fridman resigned on May 28
as TNK-BP head and threw one of BP's most profitable overseas
operations into turmoil.
(AFP, 6/1/12)
2012 Jun 1, China and Japan
started direct currency trading as Beijing marked another stage on
its journey to foster the yuan's use internationally in line with
its growing economic clout.
(AFP, 6/1/12)
2012 Jun 1, In the Dominican
Rep. new work requirements took effect, but the government said the
rules won't be enforced until month's end. A large number of Haitian
workers were particularly impacted.
(AP, 6/11/12)
2012 Jun 1, India's central
bank warned economic growth could fall further after the country's
worst quarterly figures in nine years, as business leaders and
newspapers blasted the government over the slump.
(AFP, 6/1/12)
2012 Jun 1, In Kosovo NATO
peacekeepers exchanged fire with angry Serb protesters seeking to
prevent int’l. troops from removing roadblocks in the tense north.
(SFC, 6/2/12, p.A2)
2012 Jun 1, In Myanmar Tint
Swe, head of the Press Scrutiny and Registration Department (PSRD),
said he will release its iron grip on the country's media, effective
from the end of June, in the latest significant reform for a country
emerging from decades of repression.
(AFP, 6/1/12)
2012 Jun 1, Nigerian police in
Lagos used tear gas to try to disperse a crowd of several hundred
university students angry at the president's decision to change the
name of their school. On May 29 President Goodluck Jonathan said the
University of Lagos, known as UNILAG, would be renamed Moshood
Abiola University in honor of a political prisoner who died in jail
over a decade ago.
(AP, 6/1/12)
2012 Jun 1, A Palestinian
militant sneaked into Israel at the border separating the Hamas-run
Gaza Strip and southern Israel, opening fire on Israeli troops and
killing one soldier. The troops fired back, killing the infiltrator.
(AP, 6/1/12)
2012 Jun 1, In Syria gunmen
killed 11 workers at a state-owned fertilizer factory near Qusair,
Homs province, the second execution-style shooting reported in Syria
in less than a week. A previously unknown Syrian rebel group said it
is holding 11 Lebanese Shiite pilgrims kidnapped on May 22 after
crossing into Syria from Turkey on their way to Lebanon. State TV
aired interviews with two witnesses from Houla who said the victims
of the massacres were members of families that support the
government and did not take part in anti-Assad protests.
(AP, 6/1/12)(AP, 6/2/12)
2012 Jun 1, In Thailand Suu Kyi
spoke to the World Economic Forum in Bangkok where she urged the
international community to exercise "healthy skepticism" toward
Myanmar's much-touted reform process.
(AP, 6/1/12)
2012 Jun 1, The UN Human Rights
Council in Geneva voted overwhelmingly to condemn Syria over the
slaughter of more than 100 civilians last week. Only Russia, China
and Cuba voted against the resolution, with Uganda and Ecuador
abstaining. The Philippines was absent.
(AP, 6//12)

2013 Jun 1, In Afghanistan 3
NATO service members and a civilian working with the international
coalition were killed in three separate attacks in the east and
south. An explosion from a roadside bomb killed 4 civilians,
including a child, when their vehicle was hit in Uruzgan province.
(AP, 6/1/13)(AP, 6/2/13)
2013 Jun 1, Protesters dressed
as badgers and led by Queen guitarist Brian May marched through
central London demanding that the government scrap a plan to cull
badgers, aimed at slowing the spread of a cattle disease.
(Reuters, 6/1/13)
2013 Jun 1, In Indonesia a
truck driver died at the Grasberg mine, owned by Arizona-based
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., a day after he was injured
when liquid ore material flowed into his vehicle.
(AP, 6/3/13)
2013 Jun 1, Iranian police
arrested at least 7 people at a gathering to support candidate Hasan
Rowhani in northern Tehran. The arrests were made after many
participants chanted slogans calling for the release of Mir Hossein
Mousavi, an opposition leader and candidate in Iran's disputed 2009
elections who has been under house arrest for more than two years.
(AP, 6/2/13)
2013 Jun 1, Iranian news said 6
Iranians have died and 348 have been sickened after drinking
poisonous alcohol in the southeastern Kerman province. Most had
consumed the bad alcohol on May 29.
(AP, 6/1/13)
2013 Jun 1, UN figures showed
that 1,045 civilians and security personnel were killed in Iraq in
May. That surpassed the 712 killed in April, the deadliest month
recorded since June 2008.
(AP, 6/1/13)
2013 Jun 1, In Japan officials
from 50 African nations gathered for a 3-day talk about trade,
growth and other issues.
(AP, 6/2/13)
2013 Jun 1, Kyrgyzstan
officials said protesters have lifted their blockade of a Canadian
gold mine in the east, but their supporters in the south continued
their siege of a local governor's headquarters.
(AP, 6/1/13)
2013 Jun 1, Eighteen rockets
and mortar rounds fired from Syria struck the Baalbek region of
eastern Lebanon. There were no casualties.
(AP, 6/1/13)
2013 Jun 1, In Niger 3 members
of the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram tried to escape from the
central prison in Niamey. They managed to grab a gun and killed 2
security guards. All three were recaptured. 22 prisoner escaped
including Cheibani Ould Hama, a member of al-Qaida in the Islamic
Maghreb. He was first arrested in 2009 and is accused of having
assassinated four Saudi Arabians and an American.
(AP, 6/2/13)(AP, 6/3/13)
2013 Jun 1, A magnitude 5.7
earthquake hit the southern Philippines late today, injuring at
least 33 people and damaging more than 140 houses.
(AP, 6/2/13)
2013 Jun 1, In Russia a ban on
smoking in public places took effect.
(SSFC, 6/2/13, p.A6)
2013 Jun 1, In Russia Maria
Alekhina, a jailed member of the punk group Pussy Riot, reportedly
ended her 11-day hunger strike after prison authorities met her
demands. She had complained that officials at her prison colony in
the Ural Mountains attempted to turn fellow inmates against her with
a security crackdown.
(AP, 6/1/13)
2013 Jun 1, Russian security
forces conducted a military-style operation to detain Said Amirov
(59), the mayor of Makhachkala, Dagestan, on murder charges. Amirov
was accused of staging the killing of a senior investigator with the
local branch of the Investigative Committee in 2011.
(AP, 6/1/13)
2013 Jun 1, In Syria clashes
between troops and Hezbollah fighters with rebels in Qusair left at
least one opposition gunman dead. The Britain-based Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights said that at least 31 detainees have
been killed by rebel shelling of the city's central prison over the
past two weeks.
(AP, 6/1/13)
2013 Jun 1, In Turkey Ethem
Sarisuluk (26) was shot in the head during protests in Ankara. He
was kept alive but later declared brain-dead. A court later released
his alleged killer on the grounds of self-defence.
(Econ, 6/29/13, p.49)(http://tinyurl.com/kztouxn)
2013 Jun 1, In Yemen suspected
US drone strikes killed 7 suspected al-Qaida militants in the
group's southern stronghold of Abyan. Two gunmen on a motorbike shot
and killed Colonel Yahya al-Umaysi, the commander of an air base in
Sayoun city, Hadramawt province.
(AP, 6/1/13)

2014 Jun 1, In NYC a man
fatally stabbed Prince Joshua Avitto (6) and wounded Mikayla Capers
(7) as they rode an elevator to a Brooklyn apartment to get ice
cream. A man fled leaving behind the knife. On June 5 police
charged Daniel St. Hubert, a recently released convict, with murder
and other crimes.
(SFC, 6/3/14, p.A6)(SFC, 6/7/14, p.A4)
2014 Jun 1, The crown prince of
Abu Dhabi and other international donors said they are committing a
combined $80 million to fund the conservation of lions, tigers and
other wild cats.
(AP, 6/1/14)
2014 Jun 1, Cameroon state
radio said security forces have killed some 40 Boko Haram militants
in clashes in the country's far north, shortly after the release of
two Italian priests and a Canadian nun suspected to have been held
by the Islamist group.
(Reuters, 6/1/14)
2014 Jun 1, Egypt's stock
market witnessed a sharp plunge that forced a temporary suspension
of trading after reports of a newly proposed government tax on
capital gains which experts said was hardly explained to investors.
(AP, 6/1/14)
2014 Jun 1, In El Salvador
Sanchez Ceren (69) was sworn in as president.
(SFC, 6/2/14, p.A4)
2014 Jun 1, Thousands of people
marched through downtown Hong Kong to remember the June 4, 1989,
bloody crackdown on the Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing, days
before the 25th anniversary of the tumultuous event.
(AP, 6/1/14)
2014 Jun 1, In India a
three-story building under construction collapsed in New Delhi,
killing at least 3 people and injuring 13.
(AP, 6/1/14)
2014 Jun 1, Iranian officials
attended a ceremony to mark the death of Gen. Abdollah Eskandari,
who was recently killed in Syria.
(AP, 6/1/14)
2014 Jun 1, Iran executed a
prisoner linked to the opposition group Mujahedeen-e-Khalq.
Gholamreza Khosravi was sentenced to death in 2010 for providing
photos of the country's military facilities as well as financial aid
to the MEK, and for helping to recruit for the group.
(AP, 6/1/14)
2014 Jun 1, In Iraq 40 people
were killed in nationwide unrest, including 22 who died as a result
of clashes and shelling in and around Fallujah.
(AP, 6/2/14)
2014 Jun 1, Kuwait's emir began
a visit to Iran, the first by a ruler of the US-allied Gulf Arab
state since the 1979 Islamic revolution, underscoring improving ties
between Tehran and its Arab neighbors.
(Reuters, 6/1/14)
2014 Jun 1, A Libyan air force
jet bombed positions held by Islamic militants in the eastern city
of Benghazi, apparently as part of a renegade general's ongoing
offensive.
(AP, 6/1/14)
2014 Jun 1, In Nigeria a
bombing at a football match killed at least 40 people in Mubi,
Adamawa state.
(AFP, 6/2/14)
2014 Jun 1, Spanish police
arrested six more people after a sixth night of clashes with youths
in Barcelona.
(AP, 6/1/14)
2014 Jun 1, Thailand's ruling
junta deployed thousands of security forces on the streets of
Bangkok to thwart another round of small-scale protests denouncing
last month's military coup. The military junta presented a list of
emergency measures such as price caps on fuel and loan guarantees
for small firms to kick-start an economy threatened by recession
after months of political turmoil.
(AP, 6/1/14)(Reuters, 6/2/14)